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Enrollment
573
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MASTERY CS-MANN CAMPUS·NCES 420083107367
Mastery CS - Mann Campus
5376 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19131 · (215) 581-5616 · Philadelphia County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL573 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
37 FTE teachers
STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
560 students
STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 12% smaller than its 6th grade class (86).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
30.2%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.2% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.1% | 10.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mastery CS - Mann Campus
Mastery CS - Mann Campus's state test result (24.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mastery CS - Mann Campus this school | 573 | 97.7% | 24.1% |
| Sharon Hill School Sharon Hill | 552 | 96.2% | 26.9% |
| Mastery Prep Elementary CS Philadelphia | 598 | 99.5% | 25.9% |
| Frederick Douglass Mastery CS Philadelphia | 528 | 99.4% | 13.6% |
| Mastery CS-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary Philadelphia | 647 | 99.5% | 20.9% |
| Mastery CS John Wister Elementary Philadelphia | 506 | 98.4% | 25.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mastery CS - Mann Campus ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #1,248 of 1,396 | #76 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #1,324 of 1,511 ▲ 66 | #81 of 193 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #1,196 of 1,511 ▲ 94 | #68 of 193 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 573 | #319 of 1,638 | #63 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #1,332 of 1,528 | #146 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.4% | #1,068 of 1,531 | #120 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.7% | #465 of 1,600 | #113 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #392 of 450 | #39 of 48 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
573
+27 (+5%) vs 2020
+35% since 2010-11, when it was 426
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 573 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 98% (560) |
| 2023-24 | 560 | 33 | 17.0:1 | 99% (557) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 99% (529) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 99% (543) |
| 2017-18 | 563 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 99% (559) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 33 | 16.6:1 | 99% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 426 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 91% (389) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mastery CS - Mann Campus.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (563 to 573); teachers up 12% (33 to 37).
About Mastery CS - Mann Campus
Mastery CS - Mann Campus sits in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is classified as an elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 573 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 443.
The local education agency for Mastery CS - Mann Campus is Mastery CS-Mann Campus.
Black students account for 86% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 7% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Philadelphia County's residents are about 39% Black, 46 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 25% means there is a 25% chance two randomly chosen students at Mastery CS - Mann Campus are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.5:1. The school has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 15.5:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Federal data show 98% of students (560) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Mastery CS - Mann Campus outscored 12%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Mastery CS - Mann Campus is 11.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (24.1% versus 35.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
In the surrounding county, Philadelphia County, the median household earns about $61,953 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 17% of residents are in poverty. Philadelphia County has 309 public schools with about 182,005 students, including Mastery CS - Mann Campus.
Mastery CS - Mann Campus's closest public school neighbor is Overbrook High School, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Mastery CS - Mann Campus holds at least 8 other public schools. Mastery CS - Mann Campus's average proficiency of 24.1% compares with 19.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 573, from 546 in 2020-21.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Mastery CS - Mann CampusHow many students attend Mastery CS - Mann Campus?
Mastery CS - Mann Campus enrolls approximately 573 students in grades KG-06.
Is Mastery CS - Mann Campus an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mastery CS - Mann Campus is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Mastery CS - Mann Campus have?
Mastery CS - Mann Campus employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
How diverse is Mastery CS - Mann Campus?
Mastery CS - Mann Campus reports a student body of 1% White, 7% Hispanic, 86% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Mastery CS - Mann Campus public or private?
Mastery CS - Mann Campus is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Mastery CS-Mann Campus.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.